Motivational Quotes

Wealth

This is the law of prosperity. When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it., and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous.

- Trine, Ralph Waldo

Best Quotes about Wealth

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

Proverb, Spanish

A rich widow weeps with one eye and signals with the other.

Proverb

He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

Wirt, W.

The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

You may have tangible wealth untold, caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you could never be; I know someone who told stories to me.

Maus, Cynthia Pearl

If prosperity is regarded as the reward of virtue it will be regarded as the symptom of virtue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

Proverb, Italian

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Benjamin Franklin

10.

What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

Ruskin, John

11.

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married

Wall Street Journal

12.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

Ovid

13.

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverb, American

14.

What a lot of things there are a man can do without.

Socrates

15.

Wealth acquired by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathers it by labor shall increase.

Bible

16.

It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

Billings, Josh

17.

The only point in making money is, you can tell some big shot where to go.

Bogart, Humphrey

18.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Carnegie, Andrew

19.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Thoreau, Henry David

20.

It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

Seneca

21.

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence it's a matter of inspiration.

Rohn, Jim

22.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

Dietrich, Marlene

23.

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Mother Teresa

24.

Can wealth give happiness? look around and see, what gay distress! what splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.

Young, Andrew

25.

Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.

Roosevelt, Theodore

26.

But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. [Matthew 6:20]

Bible

27.

You can never be too rich or too thin.

Simpson, Wallis

28.

Wealth is what gives you the right to preach about the virtues of poverty.

29.

How much money is enough?

30.

Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Oprah Winfrey

31.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Rockefeller, John D.

32.

Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a peer.

Defoe, Daniel

33.

Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

Rex Stout

34.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Rand, Ayn

35.

He that is rich is wise.

Depoe, Daniel

36.

The reason why we see that people of the greatest capacity are not rich, is either they despise wealth in comparison to something else, or, they are not content in getting an estate, unless they may do it in their own way, while at the same time enjoying all the pleasures and gratitude's of life.

Budgell, Eustace

37.

As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.

Proverb

38.

Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

Daniel Akst

39.

Don't knock the rich. When did a poor person give you a job?

Peter, Laurence J.

40.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bacon, Francis

41.

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Cervantes, Miguel De

42.

I have about concluded that wealth is a state of mind, and that anyone can acquire a wealthy state of mind by thinking rich thoughts.